Extrude

Quick meaning: Extrude is a verb meaning To push or thrust out.

Meaning

To push or thrust out.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To form or shape (a metal, plastic etc.) by forcing it through a die or an opening.
2. (transitive) To expel; to drive off.

Example Sentences

When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur.

Fire salamanders, which are common on forested hillsides in southern and central Europe, extrude secretions onto their skin containing a neurotoxic alkaloid, Samandarin, when they think they are under attack.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have created conductive polycaprolactone (PCL)-based filament by mixing carbon black into melted plastic before it's extruded as filament; they call the result carbomorph.

It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries."

Word Forms

• extrudes
• extruding
• extruded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outpush, thrust, shoot, protrude, push up, push.

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